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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]
'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]
Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]
If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]